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The Pitcairn Railroad Yard

ca. 1930-1950

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The Pitcairn Railroad Yard
  • Title
  • The Pitcairn Railroad Yard
  • Date
  • ca. 1930-1950
  • Identifier
  • 20110202-hpicmonroeville-0075
  • Source Identifier
  • 195-P003
  • Description
  • Along with the stationhouses built by the railroad there were a number of repair facilities, maintenance, and switching yards, the most prominent in the area being the sprawling yard at Pitcairn. In 1874, the Pennsylvania Railroad, needing room to expand its Pittsburgh operations, bought 215 acres of farmland in Patton Township along the Turtle Creek Valley. In 1888 they began construction on what was to become the Pitcairn yard
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Railroad yards--Pennsylvania--Pitcairn.
    Pitcairn (Pa.)--History.
  • Source
  • hpicmonroeville
  • Contributor
  • Monroeville Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Monroeville Historical Society Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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